alt Hacker NewsUnless you're a doctor you don't know what it's made up though.
That's the trouble with AI. You can only be impressed if you know a subject well enough to know it's not just bullshitting like usual.
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AI-guided self-medication is certainly problematic. Rubber-ducking your symptoms for free for as long as you need and then asking a doctor for their 2-minute opinion is IMHO the best way to go about healthcare in 2026.
I live in a place where I can get anything related to healthcare and even surgery within the same day at an affordable price, and even here I've wasted days going to various specialists who just tried to give me useless meds.
Imagine if one lives in a place where you need an appointment 3 months in advance, you most certainly will benefit from going there showing your last ChatGPT summary.
This is exaggerated. AI is accurate enough that our sniff tests will get us far. ChatGPT just don't hallucinate all that often.
You can have the same problem with doctors who don't give you even 5 minutes of your time and who don't have time to read through all your medical history.